On the Structure of Contractible Edges in k-connected Partial k-trees
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01/11/2009
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Contraction of an edge e merges its end points into a new single vertex, and each neighbor of one of the end points of e is a neighbor of the new vertex. An edge in a k-connected graph is contractible if its contraction does not result in a graph with lesser connectivity; otherwise the edge is called non-contractible. In this paper, we present results on the structure of contractible edges in k-trees and k-connected partial k-trees. Firstly, we show that an edge e in a k-tree is contractible if and only if e belongs to exactly one (k + 1) clique. We use this characterization to show that the graph formed by contractible edges is a 2-connected graph. We also show that there are at least |V(G)| + k - 2 contractible edges in a k-tree. Secondly, we show that if an edge e in a partial k-tree is contractible then e is contractible in any k-tree which contains the partial k-tree as an edge subgraph. We also construct a class of contraction critical 2k-connected partial 2k-trees. |
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application/pdf |
Identificador |
http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/25336/1/11.pdf Narayanaswamy, NS and Sadagopan, N and Chandran, L. Sunil (2009) On the Structure of Contractible Edges in k-connected Partial k-trees. In: Graphs and Combinatorics, 25 (4). pp. 557-569. |
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Springer |
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http://www.springerlink.com/content/q263114xnh85t3gu/ http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/25336/ |
Palavras-Chave | #Computer Science & Automation (Formerly, School of Automation) |
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Journal Article PeerReviewed |